Donnerstag, 27. August 2009

Some plugin ideas

Just a small collection of small but useful plugins that don't exist yet, but may soon:

GIO for network access to files. Not in core because of the GIO dependency

export markdown/textile/rest/creole to html

some sort of timer/a clock

speed dial/savegame like display of recently used documents instead of file chooser

spell checking

syntax highlighting (there! I said it!) for LaTeX/markdown/textile/creole

publishing prose to publishing platforms such as LiveJournal, a blog, whatever

versioning. Not reinventing the wheel here, think "vcs integration"

YouTube and twitter widgets. Just kidding.

Oh, just one thing: syntax highlighting for LaTeX will replace our gtk.TextView() with an instance of gtksourceview (of gedit fame), which means it will be able to highlight most programming languages, too. Still, PyRoom isn't intended to be a programmer's editor. Please don't use it as one or I'll come after you with a knife.